21/21 I caused my commission to be read, upon which Sir Thomas Gates delivered up...unto me his owne commission, both patents, and the counsell seale; and then I delivered some few wordes unto the Company.... did constitute and give place of office and chardge to divers Captaines and gentlemen and elected unto me a counsaile." The dead was alive again. Saith Rich's ballad: And to the adventurers* thus he writes, "Be not dismayed at all, For scandall cannot doe us wrong, God will not let us fall. |